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politico.com · United States · Politico · measured 4 Aug 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Blocked
OpenAI
Blocked
Anthropic
Blocked
Perplexity
Blocked
Meta
Blocked
Common Crawl
Blocked
ByteDance
Blocked
Apple
Blocked
Amazon
Blocked

robots.txt

As read on 4 Aug 2026, 5,052 bytes. 26 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/sitemap-2024-elections.xml
Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/liveupdates-sitemap-latest.xml
Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/liveupdates-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://www.politico.com/sanity-content/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /2step
Disallow: /campaigntrailnotused
Disallow: /CandidateRanking
Disallow: /candidates
Disallow: /CustomCompanionTest
Disallow: /debate
Disallow: /ryan
Disallow: /promotions
Disallow: /2014-election/results/mobile/iphone
Disallow: /2014-election/results/mobile/ipad
Disallow: /_preview
Disallow: /326home
Disallow: /327home
Disallow: /_styleguide
Disallow: /newsletters/politico-toplines
Disallow : /*?tab=most-read*
Disallow : /*?ml=*
Disallow : /*?hp=*
Disallow : /*?video=*
Disallow : /*?nid=*
Disallow : /*?cid=*
Disallow : /*?source=*
Disallow : /*?slide=*
Disallow : /*?category=*
Disallow : /*?p=*
Disallow : /*?print=*

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /sponsor-content
Disallow: /sponsored-content
Disallow: /magazine/sponsor-content
Disallow: /newsletters/politico-toplines

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Awario
Disallow: /

User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /

User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: Operator
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Panscient
Disallow: /

User-agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: wpbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YaK
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No